AMD Radeon R9 FURY X VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
amd
Brand4GB HBM
Memory4096
Cores512 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon R9 FURY X
VS
nvidia
Brand4GB GDDR5
Memory1664
Cores224.4 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
4GB HBM 275W N/A Jun 2015
Radeon R9 FURY X
$649 • Jun 2015
VS
GeForce GTX 970
$329 • Sep 2014
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
4GB GDDR5 148W N/A Sep 2014
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon R9 FURY X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Type | HBM | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 275 W | 148 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | N/A | 1178 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 512 GB/s | 224.4 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 4096 | 1664 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 256 | 104 |
| ROPs | 64 | 56 |
| Memory Bus | 4096-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Clock | 500 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 67.2 GPixel/s | 65.97 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 512 GTexel/s | 224.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 8.602 GFLOPS | 3.92 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 2.00 MB | 2.00 MB |
| Die Size | 596 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 8900 Million | 5200 Million |
| Required PSU | 600 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 2x 8-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
5047 (+41%)
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
3574
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
53054 (+83%)
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
28989
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
FPS
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
46.8 FPS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
9741 (+1%)
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
9637
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)
Valkyria Chronicles 4
8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy SEGA
1080p
| high
Radeon R9 FURY X (+8%)
AVG 131 FPS
MIN 116 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 121 FPS
MIN 110 FPS
1440p
| high
Radeon R9 FURY X (+1%)
AVG 98 FPS
MIN 90 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 97 FPS
MIN 89 FPS
2160p
| high
Radeon R9 FURY X (+6%)
AVG 53 FPS
MIN 50 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 50 FPS
MIN 47 FPS
Winner
Loser
Pathfinder Kingmaker
8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG Owlcat Games
1080p
| high
Radeon R9 FURY X (+26%)
AVG 122 FPS
MIN 114 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 97 FPS
MIN 92 FPS
1440p
| high
Radeon R9 FURY X (+33%)
AVG 81 FPS
MIN 74 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 61 FPS
MIN 58 FPS
2160p
| high
Radeon R9 FURY X (+32%)
AVG 41 FPS
MIN 39 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 31 FPS
MIN 29 FPS
Winner
Loser
Dying Light Bad Blood
7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access Techland
1080p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+42%)
AVG 85 FPS
MIN 66 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 60 FPS
MIN 51 FPS
1440p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+54%)
AVG 60 FPS
MIN 49 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 39 FPS
MIN 33 FPS
2160p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+50%)
AVG 33 FPS
MIN 27 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 22 FPS
MIN 18 FPS
Winner
Loser
Immortal Unchained
8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG Toadman Interactive
1080p
| high
Radeon R9 FURY X (+45%)
AVG 106 FPS
MIN 96 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 73 FPS
MIN 66 FPS
1440p
| high
Radeon R9 FURY X (+56%)
AVG 70 FPS
MIN 63 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 45 FPS
MIN 40 FPS
2160p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+67%)
AVG 35 FPS
MIN 32 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 21 FPS
MIN 19 FPS
Winner
Loser
Shadows Awakening
8.3 2018 • Action, RPG Games Farm
1080p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+57%)
AVG 124 FPS
MIN 115 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 79 FPS
MIN 74 FPS
1440p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+82%)
AVG 82 FPS
MIN 76 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 45 FPS
MIN 43 FPS
2160p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+95%)
AVG 41 FPS
MIN 38 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 21 FPS
MIN 19 FPS
Winner
Loser
Strange Brigade
7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure Rebellion
1080p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+68%)
AVG 104 FPS
MIN 77 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 62 FPS
MIN 50 FPS
1440p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+60%)
AVG 72 FPS
MIN 59 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 45 FPS
MIN 37 FPS
2160p
| ultra
Radeon R9 FURY X (+100%)
AVG 52 FPS
MIN 43 FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AVG 26 FPS
MIN 22 FPS
Winner
Loser
No more benchmarks available for this comparison
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X Wins!
Based on 249 benchmarks across 84 games
57
Avg FPS
Radeon R9 FURY X
VS
+33.7%
42
Avg FPS
GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
AMD • 4GB HBM
228
Wins
57
Avg FPS
47
Min FPS
92%
Win Rate
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA • 4GB GDDR5
12
Wins
42
Avg FPS
35
Min FPS
5%
Win Rate
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